Analysis, Interpretation and Reporting Portfolio
Analysis, Interpretation and Reporting Portfolio
This assessment takes the form of a portfolio submission on the analysis, interpretation and presentation of 3 differently designed research projects. Your task will be to demonstrate an ability to carry out an analysis of the project data using SPSS, the interpretation of the findings and to present your knowledge of the project outcomes.
Each design analysis will “presented” by combining a powerpoint/prezi/keynote presentation on each of the three studies and your explanation of it recorded using Touchcast software (www.touchcast.com) or PowePoint recording software.
Key outcomes for the Assessment
1.
Correct Analysis of the data using SPSS
2.
Interpretation of the Descriptive Statistics
3.
APA write up of the interpretion of the inferential analysis
The final stage is to construct a narrative that explains the your knowledge of the analysis and its impact on the Hypotheses. Therefore, you have been given an overview of three research projects that have increasingly complex designs.
You Must Include
3 slides (in powerpoint) for each analysis so in total 9 slides. Each set of three slides have the same tasks to complete for the different analysis.
Additionally the slides will be linked with a touchcast narrative and some click out links that evidence of your knowledge.
You have to produce content for three slides which contains:
1.
Evidence of the data input and analysis in SPSS
2.
A set of descriptive statistics and a graph of the means
3.
A full APA formatted write up of the inferential analyses of the data
In the presentation narrative (story) you will describe how the content powerpoint slide.
Guide to the content of the Slides
Slide 1.
1.
What design is the project and how do you input that into SPSS (click out to the evidence, such as the textbook web page or a Moodle page; additionally you can click out to the data sheet if you wished).
2.
What analysis did you carry out? (click out to the evidence of how you made that decision)
Slide 2.
1.
What are the descriptive statistics for each condition and how do they vary?
2.
What does the data pattern in the graph tell us?
Slide 3.
1.
Read the APA formatting out the reader and report if the tests are significant (click out to a guide to APA formatting to evidence your knowledge).
2.
What impact has your findings had on the hypothesis?
Project outlines follow below, remember to check back on the example touchcast on the moodle page.
Project One Vignette which utilises a one way between subjects design.
A Psychologist was interested in the use of identification techniques and their impact on the performance of Police Officers. The “Eyewitness” literature predicts that “task specific memory techniques” should improve performance. Officers were randomly split into one of three groups; one group used general mnemonic imagery (GMI) another used situation perspective (SP) and the third using Task Specific Rehearsal (TSR). The following day the participants completed a set of realistic simulated suspect identifications. The cumulative person identification scores for all the participants were evaluated via a questionnaire.
